Question

I need to access a php object property which I specify as variable.

$phpObj->$property

This $property might contain chars like dash(-), quotes, percent, even whitespace ect. PHP does not allow these chars to be used as variable names, resulting which I am unable to access these properties.

What would be a good solution to handle this? I’m open with encoding the $property to something alphanumeric first and then using it as property variable but this encoding should be unique for a particular string.

Eg, I want to make sure that $phpObj->First-Prop and $phpObj->first-prop should be identified differently.

Answer 1

$propertyName = 'property-name';

$phpObj->{$propertyName} = ...
$phpObj->{"property-name"} = ...

only this may be problem:

$phpObj->First-Prop and $phpObj->first-prop 

variable/function/method/property definitions in php are not case-sensitive…